El Traidor es un relato cautivador de Somerset Maugham que se adentra en las complejidades de la lealtad y la traición. La historia se centra en Henry Garnet, un respetado miembro de la alta sociedad británica, cuya vida da un vuelco inesperado cuando es descubierto como un espía para un país enemigo. La narración explora la dualidad de la vida de por un lado, un hombre admirado y querido por sus amigos y familia; por otro, un traidor que opera en las sombras. A medida que avanza la historia, se revelan las motivaciones y conflictos internos de Garnet, desentrañando las razones detrás de su traición. Maugham, con su característica agudeza psicológica, teje una trama que cuestiona la moralidad de las acciones de Garnet y los prejuicios de la sociedad. El Traidor es una reflexión sobre la identidad, la lealtad y las consecuencias imprevisibles de las decisiones personales.
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William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays. Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way. During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
